Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] like a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what worries me is that , since middle age has been put to fright , will old age descend overnight like a sudden frost on the dew ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It does n't , ’ she said , ‘ sound much like an Irish name . ’ |
| 3 | And you open just like a little shelter . |
| 4 | The body is mainly white , so that from afar they look just like a large seagull . |
| 5 | THE effect of recession on UK dividend pay-outs makes Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust 's name seem more like an unsustainable ambition — for the time being , at any rate . |
| 6 | The padded collar is comfortable enough and they look more like a tough shoe than a walking boot — designed , I suspect , to appeal more to women . |
| 7 | The clouds whip past like a speeding film . |
| 8 | Most of them were windcheatered , leather-skinned , leder-hosened Austrians of indeterminable sex , on very short skis , who made Jack clutching his poles in throbbing hands look curiously like an evacuated child . |
| 9 | I mean , mentally I feel angry , but physically I feel rather like a limp dish-rag ! |
| 10 | Picking out real sounds through the static is not easy , and I lean forward like an old crone to her knitting , staring at the box like it 's a badly tuned TV . |
| 11 | I hate to see ‘ Guernica ’ picked up and cast aside like an old sock . |
| 12 | ‘ I laugh almost like an insane person when I cast my eye backward on the prospect of my past two years , ’ he had written to George in February . |
| 13 | In the same letter he advised Diaper to control his extravagant similes , and write more like a mortal man . |
| 14 | Vocals sometimes come across like a throaty Andrew Eldritch and if this was a new Sisters Of Mercy single they really would be worth talking about again and again . |
| 15 | Vocals sometimes come across like a throaty Andrew Eldritch and if this was a new Sisters Of Mercy single they really would be worth talking about again and again . |